Guest: Abigail Belfrage -Historical Sources

Today in class, Abigail Belfrage  from the Public Records Office came to discuss our ideas with us further and how we can go about finding sources. My project doesn’t really lend itself to a lot of those types of sources, but we discussed things such as parish plans which i could include in my collage. I love this idea and feel it would be a great way to ground the work, and make it even more ‘Melbourne.’ I think this opens the piece up nicely, because it gives a sense of pre-supreme court time also. Originally, the composition began with the supreme court, but this is more focused on the land and space.I found a few of them on the state library database, my favourite one is this one from 1854, around the time the supreme court was first built. download

Some other suggestions were about who I could contact for my interview. The National rust and Australia ICOMOS were suggested. I was about to contact them when Peter Elliott got back to me and agreed to an interview. That is a relief.

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